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July 19, 2017

Christine Jaslar, a lactation consultant at HUP, stared at the name Dawn Morgan on the list of new moms she would visit in the post-partum unit and wondered: Was it possible? Twenty-five years ago, in HUP’s intensive care nursery, a tiny baby named Dawn Morgan – born at 26 weeks gestation (14 weeks early) and weighing less than two pounds – had been her very first patient.

June 30, 2017

“Are you unhappy with your environment?” asked the flyer for a Town Hall meeting at the Faith Temple Holy Church in Chester, PA held earlier this month. More than 75 residents gathered for a Q&A with environmental scientists along with Rev. Horace Stand, pastor of Faith Temple and founder of the Chester Environmental Partnership (CEP), and long-time Chester residents Dolores and John Shelton, also CEP members.

January 04, 2017

After serving as a longtime faculty member in the department of Radiology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (HUP), Constantin Cope died peacefully in November 2016—yet his impact is still unfolding and shaping the future of medicine, and his story, even the parts that are known, is widely underappreciated.

May 13, 2016

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released new rules last week pertaining to what they have labeled “all tobacco products.” These products include cigarettes, cigars, hookah tobacco, pipe tobacco and others, but perhaps the most controversial of all products now governed is the e-cigarette. The ruling, which will help...

June 03, 2015

Sites on vacation in Miami, enjoying a return to traveling following treatment for PH So many of us have been there: working long hours and feeling exhausted! But how do you know if it's just the body’s normal reaction to being overworked or something more serious? For Tiffany Sites of...

May 13, 2015

“Asthma is a chronic disease without a cure,” said Reynold Panettieri, MD, the Robert L. Mayock and David A. Cooper Professor of Medicine in the Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care division and chief of the Asthma Section in Penn’s Perelman School of Medicine. But new fungal research from him and...

May 01, 2014

The first annual Million Dollar Bike Ride is finally here. On Saturday, May 3, 2014, close to 500 riders and many other volunteers and family members will gather at Highline Park on Penn’s campus to raise funds for and awareness about rare diseases.

April 24, 2014

David Edwards, MBA, is Director of Major Gifts at the Perelman School of Medicine and the brains behind the new app Rescufy, winner of Penn’s “AppItUP” mobile application idea challenge. The challenge, organized by Penn’s Center for Technology Transfer (CTT) and UPstart, CTT’s business incubator, gathered the best app ideas...

March 26, 2014

It sounds like a provocative idea for a health care practitioner: Frank Leone, MD, MS, and his team call themselves “pro-smoker.” That’s because smoking, he says, is a disease – one that should be treated with compassion and evidence-based therapies like any other. “Getting people to quit is good for...

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